A clockwork mouse (Alan Barzman) and his child (Marcy Swenson) are joined by the hands. After accidentally falling into the trash, they wind up at the dump and under the power of Manny the rat (Peter Ustinov), who uses discarded windup toys as slave labor. He wants the mouse and child to rob a bank holding his favorite sweets, but is foiled when the henchman he sends with them is too stupid and allows Mouse and Child to escape. They wander through the land, searching for a muskrat (Bob Holt) who can allegedly give them the power to be self-winding.
This is some late 70s animated nightmare fuel! And on top of that, there's the existential crisis of the central plot. Zero reason this had to go so hard! Fully insane that there's a clock that tells the characters that their paths in life are predetermined and immutable. The whole movie is on YouTube on what appears to be a VHS transfer, which frankly only adds to the fever dream of it all. Vet this before you show it to your kids. I'm so serious.
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